Chrome: Setting PDF's to automatically Download

Chrome can open PDF's natively. This can cause issues when you are trying to open a pdf in Acrobat DC in order to edit or perform a task like electronically signing it. Here is how you instruct chrome to download PDFs to allow your default application to open it.

In the upper right corner of Chrome, click on the three dots menu and select settings.

Once there find the search magnifying glass in in the blue banner on top and type pdf.

This will tag all necessary menus with your search, follow them to site settings.

Select Additional content settings.

Select PDF documents.

Turn on Download PDFs instead of automatically opening them in Chrome.

Once this is done you can close the tab in chrome and continue working.